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PaddleOCRvssearchmysite.net

Two self-hosted projects, compared on the numbers selfhost.directory tracks live: score, popularity, release cadence and setup effort.

PaddleOCRsearchmysite.net
Score85/10044/100
Rank in category#1 of 4 in OCR#33 of 41 in Search Engines
GitHub stars91 912140
Stars, last 30 days+471+0
Stable releases, 12 months810
Latest releasev3.7.0 · 11 Jun 2026v1.4.34 · 18 Oct 2026
SetupModerateAdvanced
Official Docker imageNoNo
LicenseApache-2.0AGPL-3.0
Main languagePythonPython

Which one should you pick?

PaddleOCR scores 85/100 against 44/100 for searchmysite.net, so it is the safer default.

searchmysite.net ships more often: 10 stable releases in the past year, against 8 for PaddleOCR.

If you want the quickest setup, PaddleOCR is easier to run; searchmysite.net needs more configuration.

PaddleOCR is growing faster right now (+471 stars in 30 days).

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